The festival, now in its third year, will run from Sept. 17 to 28, with performances at the Abrons Arts Center, LaMama and the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, in Manhattan; the Chocolate Factory in Queens; and Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn.

“The exclusive reading of queer(ness) through sexuality and gender prisms too often neglects other aspects like social status and background, race and ethnicity, geography and other norms that influence positioning of queer in society and art,” the festival’s producer, Zvonimir Dobrovic said in a statement about the festival’s driving philosophy. “During the festival’s intensely paced twelve days, New York audiences will have the opportunity to experience a range of performances that challenge heteronorms and the status quo on various levels.”

The Bulgarian performance artist Ivo Dimchev’s “I Cure,” a work that the festival describes as a collective therapy session, is one of several dance-theater hybrids on the schedule, which also includes American premieres by the Dutch choreographer Jan Martens, the Dutch-Israeli choreographer Mor Shani and the Indian-American dancer Sujata Goel, and a performance piece by the Spanish interdisciplinary artist Abel Azcona.

The full schedule will be available at the festival’s website, queerny.org.